I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

NickelP:fark everyone involved. All they are doing is making it near damn impossible for future competitors to bring products to market.

Sure competitors can come to the market, they just have to pay the rectangular screen tax. And the using a touchscreen to unlock a device tax. And the clicking a button to have something happen tax. And...

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

with any luck all of the smart phone sellers will get each other banned from sale in the US because of these stupid patent suites and then some one will have to fix the mess that is US patent law if they ever want a new phone.

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

Meh.. Every single one of them sues the shiat out of each other.. MS sues others just as much as Apple does.. None of these farkers are innocent.. I don't like Apple as much as the next guy but they're just another pea in the pod as far as retarded lolsuits go. Just so happens they get all the media attention for it.

ha-ha-guy:This actually seems like a legit patent that HTC is holding. If they went out and spent the time/money to develop a data transmission method for LTE, they actually do deserve compensation.

As opposed to patenting round corners on rectangles.

Or you could RTFA.

Patent Purchase

In this case, though, HTC acquired the patents at issue in April 2011, around the same time it began selling its first LTE phone, the Thunderbolt. The patents are part of a portfolio HTC bought for $75 million from ADC Telecommunications Inc.

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

styckx:Meh.. Every single one of them sues the shiat out of each other.. MS sues others just as much as Apple does.. None of these farkers are innocent.. I don't like Apple as much as the next guy but they're just another pea in the pod as far as retarded lolsuits go. Just so happens they get all the media attention for it.

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

Masso:styckx: Meh.. Every single one of them sues the shiat out of each other.. MS sues others just as much as Apple does.. None of these farkers are innocent.. I don't like Apple as much as the next guy but they're just another pea in the pod as far as retarded lolsuits go. Just so happens they get all the media attention for it.

Microsoft don't sue people over rounded rectangle and OS with grids.

You're right, they just sue for how webpages display and how devices show a downloads status like when they sued Barnes and Noble over the Nook

NickelP:fark everyone involved. All they are doing is making it near damn impossible for future competitors to bring products to market.

This.

The original point of patent law was to protect innovation, not protect profit. That patent law is now stifling innovation in the name of profit in a new era where patents are procured for the akin to intellectual property, isn't a good thing.

Walker:I'll actually piss my pants with happiness if the latest iPad and iPhone are banned from the US.

I agree 100%.

F*ck Apple in their stupid asses. They're the Microsoft of the 90's now. Microsoft became too evil, Apple swooped in and took the throne. Now Microsoft has found a comfortable home and is nice again. Meanwhile Apple has become too evil, and it'll be Google swooping in for the win. Android already outsells iOS devices by a landslide.

Not sure who it'll be when Google becomes too evil. Despite the "don't be evil", it'll happen. You get too big, too many interests, etc.

Tr0mBoNe:All patents should expire after 1 year. Trademarks should be permanent. You survive by innovating your brand and constantly creating.

Patents on IP should.

If you physically build a device that does something you should be able to patent that machine. If you take a bunch of OEM parts and slap something together and claim you patented swipe to unlock, fark you.

I'm actually ok with Apples suit against Samsung for blatantly ripping off their form factor. Samsung can easily change several small things in their design, or even innovate, and achieve the same rip off that isn't infringing.

Swipe to unlock is code driven. You could code 1000's different ways to do it. Apples code should be copyrighted, but the idea of slide to unlock should not.

Hell, the physical slide lock version has been around forever (been used on some laptops for a while), so a suit like that should be dismissed on prior art/use anyways.

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down.

This is easily arguable, especially in regard to hardware. How many iPhones/iPads were released in the last year? How many Android devices were released in the last year? The hardware of the iPad 3 has been eclipsed by two-fold already (retina display is admittedly still better, but I am more concerned with performance).

Lor M. Ipsum:KingoftheCheese: I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down.

This is easily arguable, especially in regard to hardware. How many iPhones/iPads were released in the last year? How many Android devices were released in the last year? The hardware of the iPad 3 has been eclipsed by two-fold already (retina display is admittedly still better, but I am more concerned with performance).

What we're seeing here is the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine in full force. Not with physical destruction between nations with nuclear armaments, but economic ones , and I quote, "because the other guys are a bunch of assholes and we don't want our customers to buy their shiat because the other guy may have ripped off our patent over making a silly sliding thingy that does something on a wireless cellular device."

FFS, even the microprocessor industry scaled this shiat back because they found it counter-productive. Remember when D.E.C, Cyrix, and others went after Intel in the mid 90s? Yeah. You make your shiat, I'll make mine, and we'll let the customers sort it out.

Theaetetus:TyrantII: The original point of patent law was to protect innovation, not protect profit.

Not at all. The original point of patent law was to encourage innovation by requiring public disclosure of new ideas, in exchange for protecting profit. It's all about getting rid of trade secrets.

That patent law is now stifling innovation

What evidence do you see that innovation is "stifled"?

in the name of profit in a new era where patents are procured for the akin to intellectual property, isn't a good thing.

Procured for... the asking? I'm not sure what you were trying to say here.

Oh look, It's the Patent lawyer, come to tell us why 999 engineer hours were saved by the slide to unlock patent.

Incidentally, I've always wondered. If the cost of a lawsuit or settlement is greater than those 999 man hours, can I tell you you're wrong, and your whole profession is a parasite on those of us who actually create tech?

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Face it, fandroids, your love for an inferior product isn't going to keep Apple from continuing to supply the world with excellence.

KingoftheCheese:I think people are just jealous that Apple puts out a better product hands down. Android and Blackberry will not be able to keep up and will soon go the way of the record player, the tape deck, and HDDVD.

Nope.

Once a major piece of open source software goes past a closed source one, it's very hard for the closed source one to defeat it. You have an army of developers out there who can adapt it to different needs.

What's really going to hurt Apple is that people are reaching the point where they're happy with the level of phone technology. Very few people are going to throw out a phone with an 8mp camera to get a 12mp camera. And that means that the battle is not going to be about features, but about price.

On a similar but separate note - I have the Samsung S3 now, and replaced a Thunderbolt. I really liked the Thunderbolt, but you had to have an extended battery in order to get use out of it and not have it die halfway through the day.

With the Samsung, I spend a day at work, watch a couple hours of Netflix over 4G, listen to music, etc. Still at 40% at the end of the day.

Also, last two android phones were HTC, and both had hardware failures after the 1 year mark, but before the 2 year upgrade mark.

There is, perhaps an upside. It Apple appears to be losing or indeed does lose these patent cases (which I agree is bullshiat and the legislation never designed for this sort of thing) they most certainly have the money to lobby for new legislation to be drafted...

I'm not saying that legislation would be good mind you, but at least it'd be a starting point for getting the various laws and treaties in order for the 'digital age'.